Welcome to today's workshop. During our session, you'll have an opportunity to explore just a few of the many resources that are available to support you in your work with students, and as you pursue your own professional development.
Professional Development Collection, from EBSCOHost (Please visit the IMC to obtain the user ID & password you will need to log in to this collection.) This outstanding database features 520 full-text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles Here are just a few of the many titles you'll find in the collection:
Adolescence
Gifted Child Quarterly
American Journal of Family Therapy
Gifted Child Today
Brown University Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter
Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling
Child Development
Journal of Counseling & Development
Child Welfare
Learning Disability Quarterly
Counseling Psychology Quarterly
Professional School Counseling
Counselor Education & Supervision
Psychology in the Schools
Current Health 1 - Teacher's Edition
Reclaiming Children & Youth
Current Health 2 - Teacher's Edition
School Counselor
Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy
School Psychology Review
Elementary School Guidance & Counseling
Social Work in Education
Many other full-text resources - excellent magazine and journal collections, encyclopedias, primary documents and other research databases, for which the IMC has paid a fee for on-site and remote use - are available to members of the CMS learning community, including:
The Gale Virtual Reference Library collection includes full-text encyclopedias about a variety of subject areas. Users can read, listen to, translate and/or download articles to an iPod or other MP3 player.
The EBSCOHost database collection includes ERIC, the Professional Development Collection, and Health Source-Consumer Edition, as well as several research databases created for use by students and teachers.
NoveList Plus includes information about more than 175,000 fiction books, including everything from children's picture books through novels for adults, and more than 65,000 nonfiction books. It features reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal, links to author websites when available, book discussion guides, and much more useful content.
English Language Learner Reference Center includes more than 1,000 articles, with a focus on U.S. and world history, civics, literature, science, and life skills. Additional resources include research guides and student worksheets, as well as an audio or "read-back" feature.
Destiny, our District-Wide Online Catalog Destiny is available both at school and at home from the Library Catalogs page. Be sure to check out the many e-book collections available from this page.
Many excellent full-text magazine and journal collections, newspapers, encyclopedias, primary documents collections, and other research databases are available to the Salem Public Schools research community. Access to these collections is one of the benefits of school library memberships in the Northeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System (NMRLS) and the North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE). To log in to any database you wish to search, just enter your public library barcode from any NOBLE public library. Below are brief descriptions of several of these resources:
elibrary features information gathered from consumer-oriented books, magazines and newspapers. Also included are photos, maps, and TV and radio transcripts.
Grolier Online features two terrific resources: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (designed for students in middle school and up, and includes 36,000 entries); and New Book of Knowledge (intended for students in grade 3 and up, as well as for new English language learners, and includes 9,000 articles)
¡informé! offers users full text and images from popular Hispanic magazines, as well as full-text pamphlets about health care and many other topics.
Massachusetts Newsstand features the full text of twelve Massachusetts newspapers, including the Boston Globe (1980-present) and the Boston Herald (1991-present).
Gale Biography in Context includes biographical information about people from throughout history, around the world, and all disciplines and subject areas.
Kids InfoBits is designed for beginning researchers - students in kindergarten through grade 5 - and features a user-friendly and developmentally appropriate visually graphic search interface. The collection includes curriculum-related and age appropriate full-text content from elementary reference sources and magazines, about the arts, current events, geography, government, health, history, people, science, sports, and more.
Educator's Reference Complete features the full text of more than 450 academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and reference information sources for teachers and school administrators. This is a great resource for teachers who are enrolled in graduate education programs, or simply looking for information about the teaching profession.
Grade 6, 7 & 8 Wikis Wikis for grades 6, 7, 8 and specialist subject areas feature annotated resource lists for particular assignments, as well as links to other information of interest. As teachers plan research assignments, relevant content, including audio and video resources, can be made available in the appropriate wiki to support students as they carry out their work.
Welcome to today's workshop. During our session, you'll have an opportunity to explore just a few of the many resources that are available to support you in your work with students, and as you pursue your own professional development.
Professional Development Collection, from EBSCOHost
(Please visit the IMC to obtain the user ID & password you will need to log in to this collection.)
This outstanding database features 520 full-text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles Here are just a few of the many titles you'll find in the collection:
The EBSCOHost database collection includes ERIC, the Professional Development Collection, and Health Source-Consumer Edition, as well as several research databases created for use by students and teachers.
NoveList Plus includes information about more than 175,000 fiction books, including everything from children's picture books through novels for adults, and more than 65,000 nonfiction books. It features reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal, links to author websites when available, book discussion guides, and much more useful content.
English Language Learner Reference Center includes more than 1,000 articles, with a focus on U.S. and world history, civics, literature, science, and life skills. Additional resources include research guides and student worksheets, as well as an audio or "read-back" feature.
Destiny is available both at school and at home from the Library Catalogs page. Be sure to check out the many e-book collections available from this page.
Many excellent full-text magazine and journal collections, newspapers, encyclopedias, primary documents collections, and other research databases are available to the Salem Public Schools research community. Access to these collections is one of the benefits of school library memberships in the Northeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System (NMRLS) and the North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE). To log in to any database you wish to search, just enter your public library barcode from any NOBLE public library. Below are brief descriptions of several of these resources:
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (designed for students in middle school and up, and includes 36,000 entries); and
New Book of Knowledge (intended for students in grade 3 and up, as well as for new English language learners, and includes 9,000 articles)
Wikis for grades 6, 7, 8 and specialist subject areas feature annotated resource lists for particular assignments, as well as links to other information of interest. As teachers plan research assignments, relevant content, including audio and video resources, can be made available in the appropriate wiki to support students as they carry out their work.